Too sexy for.
This syrup? Is that what you said? I think, so wow, that's that's actually the saddest ship you say that.
Don't say that you're not.
I'm too sexy for this drug. I abuse too sexy for sir. Okay, that's what's going on.
I haven't abused it to the point that I can't pronounce words. I just like, I'm too sexy.
For I'm so sexy that I am. All I do is drink from ethysine. That's how sexy I.
Am, how sexy. That's what I tried when they when they were asking me if I was if I had a problem, you know, I was like, I think you might just be too sexy. Bro, might be too sexy for this vodka. I'm drinking in my closet. It's so sexy, no.
Rationalization. I'm just just sexy for it. You've lost three jobs consecutively because you keep sipping lean.
All right, Okay, Hello the Internet, and welcome to this week trend edition of Dir Dally's Guys.
Yeah, yeah, oh you sound curious today. Yes, I'm curious. My name is Jack O'Brien. Over there is my co host, mister Miles Gray.
Wow. What a weekend. What a weekend?
What a weekend do you have?
What a weekend?
Yeah?
But also just like the news fucking sucks. It is like that lady got you see the arrest in Woosh, Massachusetts, Like the town came out to try and prevent ice from taking this mother away, and then like the local cops were in on it too, and you're like Jesus Christ, and then you're like, yeah, Mother's Day, Mother's Day, everyone, But yeah, good time, good time.
Seems bad I did, and.
This will go into my over under it, but yeah, I think I did. I think I did pretty good on Mother's Day.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think matter he didn't like to take where I said, you know, without me, you wouldn't be a mother today. That wasn't taken well. And then I was like, is it wouldn't that be a bit someone would do.
There's a reason I didn't call out your ability to get my jokes in this Mother's Day card.
There's it feels that feels like I was just jokingly I did tell I was saying. I was like, I'm surprised we don't see more like conservative like talker men being like coming after Mother's day. Somehow that's where get we're getting dangerously close if we're gonna completely discount everything that like non men do. I feel like Mother's Day might be might be happening, or it's just like the one day where they're like, it's it's how I write the wrongs of everything I do every.
Day right spiritually, it's how they get it off their check.
Just just be a good partner.
It is wild that because I get a lot my kids are at the age where they're, uh, you know, on a mother's or Father's Day, they they're wanting to know what about Kid's Day, which does exist in Korea.
Yeah, and they have that in Japan too.
Yeah, yeah, I uh My My thing is always like, well, every day is like kind of kids day, you know, you get and then you get like your birthdays. And but really, when you think about the fact that we still have Father's Day, like kids deserve a day more than fathers deserve a day. I feel like, in many ways.
Called their fucking birthday jack, Yeah, thank you, sorry. I'm like, y'all don't deserve no fucking day. I would have answered your kid like I did when my homegirl high school, this white girl asked why it would be problem, why there's if there's black entertainment television, why there's no white entertainment television. And my answer was, look around, so that child, where's Children's Day?
I say, look around, look around you. You don't got to work, it's all yours. You just you just eat and be merry. You should have children's Day where we just make it so they see what it's like if every day isn't Children's Day. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I'd be like, okay, son hop in the booth, talk about the genocide and Gaza and uh the creepy no, I mean fashion American fashions.
Go ahead, go go just nails it. Yeah, is better than both of us.
The way his two year old articulated just the mara of it all was I was in tears. Yeah.
All right, Well this is the episode where we cover some of the news that happened over the weekend. We also cover some things that we think are overrated underrated. Miles, do you want to kick us off with something he thinks underrated underrated? Yes?
First up, almond extract in your French toast. Go for it, do it? Okay, I made a brioche French toast cast role. It used a little vanilla extract to say, you know what, Her majesty likes Almond, she likes you know, Marzapan, She's down with that almond flavortle almond extract. Damn, just a teaspoon and a half in there. So fucking I loved like almond deep almond extract. Deflavor that in a fucking French toast took it to the next level. So anyway, just consider.
That kind of brand. You use it on your French toast.
Boche with that buttery bread, you know what I mean. So it really just gets gooey delicious. The other one underrated. Taking a full dryer load out with your arms in one go, every single thing. Clean out the fucking dryer, one go your goo. You're not dropping a sock, not a fucking jack, not a single fucking no basket.
Underneath the basket, You're taking it and moving it to the next location.
I'm like that former playmate Kendra Wilkinson after she got divorced, no basket she was married to Hank basketball player.
Of course.
Of course, yeah, I'm Sands basket. I always have been, even before the fire, even before even when we had a laundry basket, I was all arms unload, ye, taking that ship out. There's a science to it, okay, an art, an intimate understanding between the rigidity of the fabrics, the gravity, and your own capacity.
Allow.
Yeah, because sometimes you're like, oh, that was gonna flop over. You're like, I'm a little bit more of an arm one.
Huh.
This one's thick. If I get enough of enough pressure on it, that shit can hang off my arm and it will not touch the ground. So is this just another week where I did something unremarkable and I'm asking for more race.
You for something, You're looking for some help.
In a weird coincidence? How come her majesty doesn't think recovering from in your slip and emptying a dryer in one go is unremarked? Why why is that? Yeah, that's something to think about.
I just I don't I don't know. Is one of your tactics that you don't use, uh fabric softener like bounce sheets in the wash so that everything just sticks together from static? Oh? Yeah, no static?
Uh?
The static actually isn't that bad to be honest.
Wait, you don't you don't use the bounce sheets.
I do sometimes when I have them. In this post fire era, I've definitely gone to brass tacks. I'm like, oh yeah, dry your sheets this seasoning.
Of I would sooner let the let the clothes mold, then use it without dryer sheets.
Yeah, yeah, you know, it's it's all, it's all up to you. It all works, it all works, but getting it out that's satisfaction. Again, It's something shout to everybody. I know people who regularly do this. You you know that feeling, and I salute you to.
You get it to the next spot and just yeah, drop it, just.
Drop it on the floor.
Done, you shout to your majesty. Wash is done.
Did you put them in the bathtub again? Yep? Damn.
Brian the editor is always coming with conspiracy theories that I hadn't even thought about. Do dryer sheets even work? What's the Isn't it just gas guards against static? And it also like gives them a nice little freshness. In my experience, they've worked. I've definitely noticed the difference where they y, I guess, stick to your body.
I guess I don't have I guess in the arrow when I wore a lot of like polyester fake fabrics like shimmery basketball shorts. Yeah, that was pulling those shits out of the dry and they're.
Just like just could power a small town for a week after you get them out, like a defibrillator.
Just fucking go in there and pull two shorts apart in a dryer and they'll give you requisite shock to get your heart going.
Oh that's interesting. So Brian is Brian just doesn't get static, and so that's why he doesn't believe in it. But some of us are very staticky out here, and I blame myself, all right, my underrated. I just so I heard a podcast yesterday that kind of blew my mind. It was an episode of the show search Engine. I
heard one and a half episodes of Search Engine. The good one is responsible for my under and then the bad one is responsible for my over so the under like it was an episode about it was interviewing this guy. Was his book Airborne Out that's about how we figured out that viruses can travel in the air, like basically what we now know about how COVID was transmitted. I
I thought we knew that shit. Like, I just felt like my model of the world was always that, like people sneeze virus gets in air and then like you gotta hold your breath because we didn't have masks when I was a kid. And but apparently like that was
even heading into the pandemic. That was like somewhat controversial, and like the reason that the World Health Organization like default went with like wash ear groceries was that they were still unsure about the idea of like airborne disease and like, I don't know like the pre so basically
they track like this. This idea was introduced in the early twentieth century by this married couple that the idea of like airborne viruses and like globules and you know, all all the stuff that we now know about how COVID traveled and like why I'm masking helped. But before that, like this, before germ theory, the theory was miasma's which is like bad air. It was like that, well, you can't open your window if you're sick, because then the bad air is going to travel in through your window
and kill you. Yes, it was you know, it was dumb and incorrect, but so they like one of the theories is that the like suggesting that illness traveled through the air was seen as so stupid after that that they were just like, yeah, we're not that that's stupid. And so these people introduced the idea of like germs being in the air and like kind of proved it
pretty definitively. But they were annoying. They were so annoying like people, Yeah, they're just an They were like iconoclastic and uh, you know, we're just suspicious of everybody, and
they basically their bad personalities. One of the theories goes sets scientific and like you know, the study of how disease spreads back like decades because there was just like nah, fuck those people, and then like by the time, by the time of like the aughts and even into the like teens at the beginning of COVID, like their studies were still like some of the best work that had been done, but like you had to like call the institution where they worked and have them like send you
photo copied pages of their work so that you could like kind of uh do do your research and like base it on that, and eventually they got like a
small uh following. But it's just one of those things where like I feel like when I was like in school growing up I was just like, we have everything figured out, you know, we're we we know everything, like science, science knows everything, case closed on everything, case closed exactly, and that was incorrect and also like makes the world seem less interesting than it actually is because you're just like, oh whatever, like that seems like it seems like the
scientists have it figured out and yeah, and then here we are there. We were in like twenty twenty, like washing our groceries because a bunch of people didn't want to believe that germs could like travel through the air.
And I just feel I feel like there's more ways than we realized that people in the future will look back on us and we'll look like, you know, the The image that always comes to my mind is like when people were like working out with that belt that jiggles your belly around yep, yeah, while like smoking a cigarette, like you know the Like that's what we're going to
look like in many ways in the future. Hopefully it's because of like how on our phones we were, but I think there's also other ways that we're kind of in the dark ages that we probably don't understand or appreciate fully. Down from the dark ages, in many areas for sure.
Yeah. When you said wrote the book Airborne, I thought you were referencing the nineteen ninety three movie about the guy who had to move to Cincinnati and he's a rollerblader and Seth Green, isn't it.
Yeah, yeah, I assumed they were the same thing. Is that? Is that not what that movie is?
I was waiting for you to get to the part about how he rollerbladed down Down.
He solves it by rollerblading. Yeah, Down one of the few movies when that came out when I lived in Dayton, I was like, that's fucking Ohio based movie. That's crazy.
But it's like that was shot in California.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Oh those are the days. Yeah. Also, the like interview with the guy, so this guy is like maybe overboard in the like airborne direction.
Take place in for Cincinnati. Hey all right, they've shot it there.
Yeah, there you go. And you could tell every every shot of that was screening Cincinematic.
Yeah, when they were eating buckets of Skyline chili.
They have a great Octoberfest there if you ever need a second specific for the city of Cincinnati. Great october Fest. A lot of apple strudel and just a massive party there. The guy who wrote the book and is I guess he's like an epidemiologist. I don't know what exactly his training is, but like he keeps he's just a roll.
Yeah, dude, I fucking killed Devil's Backs.
How I got interested in it was the movie Airborn, and somehow that led me back. It was just a big Michael Jordan fan, and then Seth Green movie and then came about. But he carries a portable carbon monoxide detector on him and basically this is something that I always like suspected and like I'm gonna have to do
additional research. But his thing is that, like, as the if you're in a room by yourself with the windows and doors closed, the carbon monoxide levels are going to go up and up, like very slowly and minimally because you are exhaling. And it's like it's basically a measure of how much of your breath is in the air
when you're measuring it. And he basically said that, like he keeps this on him and if he's like on a plane before they turn the air filters on, for instance, or you know, just in a room like this reminded me of when I was in classrooms when I was a kid, and like they have all the doors and windows closed, and like suddenly I'm like started, Like by the end of it, I feel like I can barely stay awake. That might have been because shit was but it also might be because of all the breath that
was in the air. Is like you know, but anyways, he was saying, you can see how much breath is in the air with these little detectors and then like once it gets above a certain level or he sees it heading in that direct and he masks up, which was interesting makes me fail.
Don't we exhale carbon dioxide?
What's what's the I think I think I said the wrong thing. I always get those wrong. Carbon carbon dioxide whatever, the one is that we exhale goes up.
Carbon is like the thing for your house, the.
Thing that kills you. Yeah, yeah, I think it's carbon dioxide. Oh okay, okay, yeah, which doesn't kill you but does make me sleepy.
I'm a big dioxide fan.
Yeah, so you're a big and I'm always trying to give carbon monoxide credit for things.
You know, You're always like, yeah, plants need it to survive. I'm like Jack, that's not the wrong one. Stop telling your kids that they're gonna get bullied.
What is something, Miles, do you think is overrated?
Overrated? This goes back to Mother's Day overdoing it with the flowers as a gift, Like, I think there is a reflex in straight American men, yeah, to just buy the fuck out of some flowers. Yeah, and it's like the most thoughtless gift. I think if you know what your partner.
Likes, by all means sure.
I've through trial and error. I started off like I can I look like that that evolutionary chart where I start off as like chro magnet flower giver man. Yeah, but I'm like, here, twelve two dozen roses, Like dude, what the fuck is this? How much did this cost? I'm like they were a fucking oh I didn't even know, and I would tell you the price, but I think that's a bit ghost So I'm just gonna know.
So I think you would be mad at me.
Yeah, to the point where she's like I know what a dozen costs? Like this is such I remember I remember getting it just immediately like this is not a good gift, and not like in a fuck you kind of way. I'm just like, let me ed you, edutain you for a second. Just because they were expensive doesn't mean I'm gonna like them. And I also realized her
Majesty loves like wild flowers like she likes. So I went to the floorist and I went I was like, where are your like wildflowers out They're like in there, They're like put together whatever you want. You can walk out here for like thirty bucks, and I was like, whatever I want. He's like, yeah, if it's just if it's just like the wildflower stuff, go ahead.
And just pick that shit off the side of the highway, broke as you want this.
And then this other dude comes in, sweaty, slicked back hair, looks like a total piece of shit, like middle aged dude like me and a Meati is like I need three dozen. He came in like out three three dozen red roses.
I really fucked up this time.
It was so like his energy. I didn't want to be. I didn't like, obviously there could be nuanced to his story. Maybe they're three people. But then I kept listening and they're like separate. He's like, no, I just need one big bouquet three dozen red roses as quick as you can as you can, and I'm like, what the fuck is this guy going through? And I just I'm just thinking, you know, as as you you know, this is part
of like understanding your partner more. You don't you don't just get the big stupid boot k of flowers, because that's not always what they want for me. It's like, you need some wildflowers. Her Massey likes card, likes food. I like to cook, and I've really doubted in before, like I would try and go overboard with like the gifts, because I would be like, I don't know what to do,
rather than again, yeah to express, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, okay, if you don't like this Michael Jordan life size cutout, you're gonna like this locket engraved with our son's initials or this French toast.
I don't know this locket engraved with Michael Jordan's initials, right, right, Jeffrey Jordan.
Yeah, So I just say, you know, just a little thought goes a long way. Just the empty gesture of just pulling up with an seen bouquet of flowers is such a dult. It's it doesn't always work. It doesn't always work, and in fact, most of the time they're like, I would have rather you spent that same amount of money on like anything else. Yeah, the flowers that are are will look nice, obviously, but then they they go away real quick.
I usually try and get some nice flowers that are you know, I have a sense of what my wife likes. But this year, uh, you know, some family sent some flowers, so we had a lot of flowers already, so I was like, fortunately, I wasn't like relying on that to be the only thing.
Yeah, they're like, hey, babe, four pound bag of shredded cheddar. Pretty cool?
What do you think of that?
That? What do you think of Mother's Day? No?
Yeah, no, I was just joking.
Let me go get the real one really quick. I'll be back at forty five minutes.
Tires screeching.
All right.
My overrated is horseshoe theory. Have you have you heard centrist talk talk horseshoe theory?
So far one direction you end up? Yeah? Yeah, man.
The guys are always never never used to talk about people on the right. It's almost always used to talk
about how people on the left are actually crazy. Uh, and they're actually just as bad as Donald Trump if you think about it, Yeah, And I don't know, Like so this podcast Search Engine like had a good original you know, interview with that guy who wrote Airborne, and then the next episode was about Crypto, and I was like, maybe they can like make some sense of Crypto and like with what's going on with that, But they just like brought NPR's Planet Money in to do it, and
these guys were just not it for me, and they I don't know, they kept like they just casually were like I think they were talking about a joke that's so unfunny that it becomes funny, and they were like, it's like a meme horseshoe theory because like the ends of the Spectrum meet up. But it's just like I realized like that for some reason, that was the final straw, and I was just like these motherfuckers just like saying horseshoe theory when it's like, no matter what they just think,
they think it makes them sound smart. It's fucking stupid. It's just a way for centrists to feel like they're superior over people who aren't centrists, and they keep bringing it up at a time when the only thing that's going to save US is people to the left of them actually making progress, and you know they just think everything the left of Joe Biden is dangerous.
I mean it's pretty convenient. So it's like, oh, okay, well you're just like them now because you're just like the health care Yeah, you know, they're advocating for cut Medicaid cuts like every Okay, yeah, I so wanting everyone to have everything is the same as wanting only white, straight people to have everything. Only yeah, not even them, Like they don't even get universal healthcare, just won't be on the receiving end of the government's violence.
I guess, yeah, but I don't know. It's again, like they weren't even talking about it in that respect, but it just feels like I've heard enough people say it in that in that world that I'm just like, God, they fucking they just can't get else. Also, that's their like scientific accounting of how comedy works in an episode
where they repeatedly are like doing that. I'm also just over like punning like that in a New York Times article that we're going to cover later on, Like there was like a paved the way in an article about town design, and they were like, no, pun intented just like these fucking people that yeah, or they were like you to speak, I think they did a so to speak.
Oh god, yeah, just fucking say it and it's fine. It's also it's not I'm not alright with it.
Go out of the way to take that. Yeah, paved the way and everything. I'm anti thinking that you've done something when you've done a little pun that like thinking.
That that's comedy. Would you have been fine if they just used and then and then they've paved the way for other things? Totally fine sentence. Yeah, don't don't stop in the way doing the big Catherine Han wink.
Yeah.
Yeah, why is that image printed in the middle of this sentence?
Yeah, but yeah, it's it's all like it's just such like it's because the horseshoe in question is like a plotted on a graph, so it feels smart and it's just like no, like none of it. It's it's stupid. It's very not nuanced, and it's like exactly wrong at this point in history to be talking to be repeatedly bring it up even when it like doesn't make sense to bring it up. Very frustrating. Shut the fuck up, all right, Let's take a quick break. We'll come back
and we'll talk about some news, and we're back. We're back, and so are the markets.
Maybe sweet for the moment, maybe for the moment. You know, Trump, we always say he's pump vacan he's trump vacant, and that's what we're getting again with the fucking tariff wars, trade wars. So we just Scott word that the tariffs will be paused for ninety days between the US and China,
and Trump is claiming victory somehow. But the pause again will impose a mere thirty percent duty on goods from China, down from one hundred and forty five percent, and China will reduce its tariffs on products made in the USA to ten percent from one hundred and twenty five percent. So basically they're both like, okay, we can let's dial tariffs back by one hundred and fifteen percent. We were really getting wild there for a second. Oh guys, all right, well,
let's let's knock that off. And China was clear like this really isn't a deal. They're just like this is stupid, And Scott Bessett was also basically kind of saying similar thing, although trying to make it feel dally basically saying like the two economic powers were just reaffirming that completely decoupling their economies would not be good for literally the entire earth economy somehow. So yeah, I mean, China isn't doing anything to change any of the policies Trump has been
yelling about. So this is a very trumpy deal in that he overplayed his hand, had way too much dip on his chip that the chip broke. Then he starts putting his fingers in the dip bowl trying to get it out, and then when someone catches him, he's like, yeah, it's all good. I never wanted anything anyway, swish yeah, And he's like, yeah, I saved it. You have not. You have not. If anything, we're still work soft than before you were here. So nothing is objectively better.
The level and like depth of ass kissing is really like that, that's been the I can't quite get my mind around it, but it's got to be changing things
so drastically inside like how everything works. Like there's a New Yorker article that was like looking at just like all these people whose careers are just to flatter Trump now in the Washington d C. And I feel like that's just fucking everybody at this point, like it's just creating, like including the olive arcs, Like everybody is just building this reality where he can claim W's you.
Know, I wonder if the next president is just gonna be someone who's so well built to kiss ass, because that's just the new dynamic that exists in Washington. But yeah, this is just everyone is praising it, like on Fox and stuff, and then occasionally you get like the China who are like this, I can't believe he blinked, He blinked again, He blinked again. Because some people were so horny to watch the economy completely collapse in like service
of like this absolutely inane economic policy. But I think the people with a lot of money won this round. I think because everyone was yelling at Scott Besant to
do something and people I guess helped. But yeah, so, I mean again, the trouble is, we're all going to still see higher prices, and many companies have already been preemptively warning their customers that like higher prices are on the way due to tariffs, and so this may call markets, you know, the markets for a few days or weeks, but regular people are still at the mercy of corporate greed, will who will be using tariffs as like a fig leaf.
Apple is still considering whether to raise prices on iPhones just they're like I don't know, Like now, we're like he made the fucking charts, so like what we might as well just like keep the price is there? Nothing bad is going to happen there.
That's like the thing all the companies are talking about right now in tournal. It's like, you think we can get away from putting another five or seven percent?
Yeah, And anytime they have, they just raised the fucking price. Yeah, any like news story that they can get behind and be like, well, obviously it was the pandemic, and it was the war in Ukraine because wars have never happened before, and uh, you know, now it's going to be the tariffs is going to be their excuse to raise prices even if they economically don't need to.
And they will not. No one will actually point a finger at Trump. If anything, they'll they'll kiss his ass and cover for him. When people are like what the fuck is going on, They're like, sorry, we hear at Walmart. Believe it's the immigrants that is actually raising prices on you.
Yeah, it's it is interesting about like who's going to like there's got to be some good reporting coming about like what exactly is going on in the court, the royal court of the Trump administration, Like to your point about like if the person who takes power next, because it's not gonna be a Democrat, it's gonna be just whoever Trump decides to let be the next Republican candidate.
You know khrush Jeff, have you seen the Death of Stalin? No? Yeah, So it's like about Stalin's like royal court and like, ye, the Steve Bushemi plays Nikita Khrushchev, who was like one of the inner circle for Stalin, and he's both really like good at kissing ass and then like Stalin used to just like make everybody around him get like shit faced, like for his amusement, like drink until they threw up, and Khrushchev would like come home at the end of the drinking.
I mean in the movie.
I don't know how historically accurate it is, but like he would come home and like tell his wife everything that happened so he didn't forget it, and like they would like write down notes so they were just like the best at like playing this weird game essentially a
drinking game. Yes, stay on top of your shit, and like he'd be like, okay, so then he said this, and like I'm not sure exactly why he was going in that direction, you know, but it's all just stupid fucking maneuvering for the pleasure of the emperor is basically what what the future of this country? And like who's in power, and like what happens comes down to.
Look at him and look and then he got to take over.
Yeah that's right. And then yeah, so Khrushchev then eventually becomes the leader of Russia during the Cold War, big chunk of the Cold War.
Oh you love to see it all right?
Yeah, So I wanted to talk about this New York Times article that is about a small town called like could de Sac Tempe I think, or tempe Cul de Sac. It's like a small town outside of Phoenix that is specifically planned to be car free and they got a bypass from the city to not have to like provide X number of parking spots per resident, which we've covered before, like in trying to build out like cities that aren't
just designed for cars. That's like a big thing that comes up is like minimum parking requirements is like what they have to deal with. They got to bypass to like build this small town, and it's just there's no parking. There's some like wide pathways that you can the emergency vehicles can drive down, but for the most part, the whole city is like designed for pedestrians, like with humans in minds.
Like Europe, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like when you look at how the buildings are all oriented, you're like, oh, this feels very European, where everything is just kind of all very centrally located. Yeahind of vertical.
Modeled on towns in Italy and Greece built long before the advent of cars. Cul de Sac Tempe is what its developers called the country's first neighborhood purposely built to be car free and you know, good for the climate, but also like good for people's health, good for people's happiness. It is kind of funny that they and that they say that like it can drive low cost of living,
low cost of government. It's funny that the New York Times is like treating this like a revelation when they like New York is a massive example of this, or like a place where people happily live without cars because there's public transit, and like they pay a massive premium to live in a place like that, where you just
like are on top of each other. And that's like I've always thought that, like this also has something to do with you know, we've talked about post apocalyptic movies, like you know, being a fantasy of like people not having cars anymore, where you just everybody's walking and everybody's like living in small communities right on top of each other, or you know, I think a lot of people like that.
There's a tweet that I remember seeing, but that is along the same lines of like people who think they like loved college and don't realize it's because it's the only time that they were like in a walkable environment where you don't need a car, like people who like live on college campuses. And you know, it's also why people join cults or become Disney adults. You know, we like to be in these little places where you walk down the middle of the street.
Yeah.
Yeah. Cruise ships.
I have the same feeling about cruise ships. And I'm like, as a kid, I like was obsessed with them, and then I went a couple of times as an adult, like in my twenties and early thirties, and I always remember, like, oh, it's because I can walk fucking everywhere. Yeah, like, yeah, I think that's what Americans whenever they go somewhere where they can do.
That, like, yeah, like old cities built before a car.
I love this.
It's so charming. I don't know what it's about. Yeah, there's even that part in I'm adding Shawshank to this because so one of the things that they talk about is like they have there a twenty four year old woman who is living there on her own for the first time. She's been able to live without assistance of family and friends because she's blind, and she's able to because she's like, I don't know, and in order to like have a good time, I don't have to cross the street.
It's just wow, right, yeah, yeah, that's not something I have to think about, right.
Yeah, it's not something you have to think about. It like reminds me like that that is the one of the parts of Shawshank that sticks with me, which the reason I'm like emphasizing it. Shashank is like one of the most popular movie like people like rate it so highly and it was just like massively popular in the nineties. But it has this like small community obviously living like together, and it's like there are horrifying aspects of it, but I think there it's also a fantasy of living in
a community without cars. And when like the guy gets out, he like immediately almost gets hit by a car, right, and like you're like Jesus, yeah, he's like everybody went
and got into a big damn hurry. And I do think like that part hits so hard, and that movie hits so hard because again, just as the children long for the minds, I think I think the people long for you know, small communities where you don't where you could just like let your kids run and not worry about them getting hit by a car, or like you don't have to get in a car and like feel like you're in mad Max all of a sudden to just like go to the grocery store.
You know, right. It is so different when, especially when you go abroad and you realize energetically how different people are when they think about their kids going out and having like doing shit out in the world. Yeah, because like in Europe like places that stuff like central squares, Like you'll go, It'll be like nine at night. There's a bunch of kids like running around just having a
good time. And yeah, their parents like it's because they all probably live around the fucking corner and this is just built so differently and I don't have all my fear of like gun violence and whatever the fuck going on. They're like, is it safe for these.
Yeah, let the kids, Brian the editor, saying, the kids are out at midnight in Mexico City, Like, yeah.
That's when I was in Italy. Man, the kids are out so late that I was like, well, these kids are fucking cooler than me. And they're right small cigarettes.
Cigarettes in second grade. Like I don't know, such as life, you know. But yeah. The article says not having to factor in residential parking allowed its architects to configure buildings to maximize shade and to design narrow pathways that encourage breezes and social engagement. The pedestrian is really the primary person, the figure that you're developing for, said Alexander Vundeling, the
lead architect on the project. Big expanses of glass were askewed, awnings added over sunfacing windows and native plants and trees put in for cooling shade it. But just like the idea and this is like this kept popping in my head during like when New York was doing the congestion pricing and everyone was like kind of freaking out and being like they can't take our cars. But it's like, just it's so abnormal for anybody to do an idea that is designed for people and not cars and not businesses.
It's like that that is a radical thing. And it seems like if you just ask somebody to come in fresh and be like, so, how should we like design these communities that we live in, like it would take them so long to get to the bad idea of like, well you need to design everything for cars and businesses, like obviously the obvious idea is like just design it for people to like live close to each other.
It was like maybe we're like in this new era because we've gone so astray from recognizing people's needs that with this one neat trick, like.
Companies to want you to know about it were like.
Dude, this is the greatest place to live ever, like everyone's now moving to these car free places. Yeah. Wow, Well I remember seeing when this thing was first like an idea and before it got built, And it's interesting to see now that it's like sort of pretty much in full swing now that like at least from like this article on another one I saw in Dwell, like it seems people are enjoying it. Yeah.
One of the people who like moved there not intending to like get away from cars, they had to. They were like, eh, I guess, I mean the rent is good and like it's it would be a good place to like kind of start our family. And they like had to give their car away and they had to like weigh that when they were deciding. Just they're like, yeah, I mean it's a community like people you can like literally like borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbors,
like you see your neighbors all the time. When their daughter was born, three different families brought a meal or dropped off cookies or offered to go buy them groceries. It's just feels.
Like we have to like build Disneylands for getting back into some sense of community.
But like I think that's what Disneyland is is like longing for.
But like this I'm saying that, like this is a I mean like a purpose built thing for us to exact ignite our sense of Community's like, I think that's it. We were unable to do it, and I mean people are able to do it, but because of the sprawl and things are sort of are hardwiring. It's like, I don't know, man, this we're all just disparate, siloed off
if we're not connected. And then you're like, oh, this place it's built for me to remind myself that community is like a thing that we earned for perfect Why would.
A place where people live be built for people. I don't understand that. That's crazy. It's crazy to me. Miles.
Yeah, I do just have to uh.
First of all, I'm gonna shout out, you know, great great article from the New York Times, Kara Buckley, shout out to care for reporting it. I do have to read the part I was talking about earlier, and mister Effort of Strong Towns said cul de Sac Tempee could pave the way as it were for similar car free developments. You just didn't need that as it were. It were
just cut that as it were. I feel like maybe the editors at the New York I'm gonna blame the editors at the New York Times and not yeah, the author, because it was that Kara buck Glee.
He said, this is the name of it, the journalist. Yeah, that wasn't on Kara, that was the.
Editor, as it were, uh not intended.
That's exactly now that you're saying it. It's so smug annoying. I fucking don't it sounds like some asshole reading the New York Times that I hate. Yeah, like that they would that it would almost be like that as it wasn't. There's like pave the way and they would lower the paper and look at their like partner, go as it were, and then lift the paperback and keep reading it like you shit the fuck up. Just read about these carless cities and how we need them.
That's right, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and cover some of the other things that are happening. We'll be back, and we're back.
We're back.
And Trump just did something that, you know, a less up and up, less trustworthy president might might seem a little suspicious. He just did something that, uh seems like, you know, if if he weren't totally on the up and up, which he totally is you know, uh, like, you know, he's just that it's just a gift. The plane is a normal gift.
Just a gift, it's normal plane.
He Uh so he got a lot of money from like the tech world, and uh, the US Copyright Office just released the third part of a report that uh ask some questions about how AI just takes copyright copyrighted work and like dozens.
Companies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah yeah yeah. Nothing to see here, nothing to see here.
It seems like it's just training it on work that no artists who are not paid that well.
To begin with the GIBLI stuff, we told chapt go to animation school in fucking knuckle down. That's right, and don't come back till you can do flawless recreations of Miyazaki style animation. Okay, So, among many government departments that Trump seems to be trying to overthrow, he fired the head of the US Copyright Office after that report came out.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this happened right after she issued part three of a lengthy report about AI, which, as we said, expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted material by AI technology. The draft notes The generative AI systems draw on massive troves of data, including copyrighted works, and asks do any of the acts involved require the copyright owners consent or compensation? No?
It also like asks like do we need this shit at all? At one point they're just like, why what good is this other than removing Like truly, the only business purpose of this is removing the need to pay the artist, Like that, that's it, because otherwise you just pay them to do the thing that you're asking them to do. Now, I get so hostile when I see people putting like, clearly AI generally.
Oysters are just stuff to promote their work, or like a deck that has clearly made by AI, Like I don't know why. My instant reactions like the fuck are you thinking?
Just fucking the fucker shrippery.
Fucking slope and now we're not paying artists.
So making Generative AI more vulnerable to copyright lawsuits, you know, due to all the copyrighted material that it actually like directly steals from, would get in the way of his plan to pay back all the tech companies that Bank World is campaigned, which has already resulted in five hundred billion dollars of investment in an AI infrastructure project called Stargate.
Mmmm, well, did you walk through the stargate and stay there? That's right, and don't come back and don't bring back whatever the fucks on the other side of that thing over here.
Well, so stargate. Did you watch Stargate? I saw that in theaters when I was a kid.
Stargt g one, the TV show No.
Yeah, yeah, I organized a viewing of the TV show No, the Kurt Russell movie, And I don't think I ever got my head around, like is it a parallel dimension that it's going back too, or was it time traveling to actual ancient Egypt? And it's like the premise that like Egyptians couldn't have built that ship by themselves, had to be Aliens.
It was definitely uh, Egypt coded, but they were considered like intergalactic.
Okay, yeah, it was a wormhole.
So it was like they were able to exactly holes. If you had a stargate. I had a stargate, we could stargate.
That's right, you know, hit me up on hit me up on my stargate later.
And I'll bring my stargate and we could be stargate.
But for they by creating the TV show after the fact that had the guy from mcgiver in the Kurt Russell role. I have completely replaced Kurt Russell in the movie in my memory of the movie with mcgiver, so just because they both have the same kind of blonde, dirty blonde mullet. But anyways, that's what that's what they named their AI Moonshot project after five hundred billion dollars so that you know they can.
Is this comes out of time to where a lot of people are questioning if chat GPT got worse. It was like, yeah, I know, but I'm saying it dropped part four it was worse. And then everyone's like, what's this ship? Like how far this is? Like worse than like three iterations.
Imagine if if they dropped an iPhone and then had to pull it off of the market because it was worse than the iPhone.
iPhone seven team never mind, y'all were y'all fucking with the Apple five? Right?
What they did the thing as we talked about last week, they they dropped it. So this is a technology that the whole claim is that it's going to be advancing so so fast, like we can't keep up, and like it's scary how fast it is going to be advancing. And they dropped their latest version and it was worse than the previous version, and they admitted it and took it off like they took it back. They were like, our bad that so yeah, that that would be my
admit it. That would be my clue that things might not be as they're suggesting. They are that open air. Of course, the company that has the most much dumping buckets of money and energy into this ship. Yeah.
I mean they're trying to get every last dime they can before the fucking like Indiana Jones trying to snatch his hat before the gate shuts up on him. He's like last bit of money by you'll never see me again.
On the plus side, firing the head of copyright office, I think means we just get a full you know, fair use purge where we can just like show Mickey Mouse doing whatever we want to play in full songs on the that's right by the most litigious artists.
Yep, we're gonna be playing Eminem on a loop.
That's right, Yeah, yeah, Eminem.
I guess wasn't that weren't they like when he played a Mom's Spaghetti remix what they're like, it's a fucking all the lyrics are moms spaghetti.
Yeah, well they don't listen. They just have AI that's combing the internet. And see, so don't say, don't act like AI hasn't done anything for us.
Yeah, only AI. We fun with. His last name is Iverson. That's right, Okay, all right?
And finally, uh, you know, we talked last week. The Pope is Americans. Big news. He's from Chicago. People. The two baseball teams of Chicago got got into it over the weekend trying to claim him because the Cubs claimed him first as their Oh you know, really, yeah, they're pontiff.
With what with what did they what did they? What did they base that off? There?
There was an ABC report that claimed he was a Cubs fan. Well you're fired because it turns out that, you know, further reporting, his brother John Prevost said he was never ever a Cubs fan and was really a White Sox fan, and that led to the team, the White Sox, posting their own, you know, post about the Pope's fandom, and then people like started scouring the internet.
They found photos of the Pope at the two thousand and five World Series, he's like, in the background of this one picture just on a cell phone back in two thousand and five. This guy's making moves. What was it Who was he on the phone with? That's a great question.
I have to assume. God right, he looks like he's moving weight. I don't know why, but he's just like.
He smiles and looking off in the middle distance on a Nokia, you know. And then he was shown on camera during the game, which I love. Look what we can do as an as a national internet.
How the fuck did someone find that?
I know, that's impressive.
Did somebody have that on like in a binder already ready to go or with someone like now, I'm gonna call him through every Cubs broadcast game to see if I can catch the now Pope.
And then and the commentary team is like, look at that guy. That guy looks like that guy could be Pope one day.
Yeah, yeah, real right, young man, keep your head down. We're rooting for you, Pope. Let's just call him Leo the fourteen.
Maybe.
I don't know, we'll see, we'll see where this goes. I just love though too, that like, because you know, for there's such a divide between Cubs fans and white Sox fans, and a lot of people just presume that the default Chicago in is a Cubs fan. Yeah, but a lot of it's like geography, class and all these other things. Race can plain to it because like my family from Chicago, all white Sox fans. Whites are not
Clubs fans. They are not Cubs fans. And it's just interesting that, like I wonder if that ABC persons like, yeah, he's probably he loves base he's from Chicago, he's a Cubs fan. And then the brother goes, he was never.
He was never a Cubs.
Don't ever fucking besmirch the pope's.
Name, like that unbelievable. He so, by the way, so he was at the two thousand and five World Series, which the White Sox won, because the Pope presumably enlisted angels to sabotage the other team. I like, yeah, in his arms, that's what they should have gotten footage of doing the angel wing flap front Angels.
And the use ai doctor and image where he's calling the Angels to fucking do that, or someone get a real actor to portray him.
But yeah, but some people are claiming that the Cubs since the Cubs falsely claimed he's a Cubs fan. They then lost on Friday, which fucking lie on the PA. Don't like that, Yeah, man, what are you doing? They then won the next day. I will also say, if we're going with the theory that he's intervening on behalf of the White Sox. The White Sox were so so
far this season. They're twelve and twenty nine. They're coming off one of the worst seasons in the history of Major League Baseball or the Papacy, Like almost the worst baseball season of all time. They were in the running, like I'm not a baseball fan and the only things I knew about last season were Shoho Tani is good and the White Sox are historically right. Like they would open Sports Center with clips of them fucking up, Like that's how bad they were. Like, the White Sox are
at it again. Look a look at this masterful fuck up, which only suggests that the Pope took his eye off the ball for too long and he was busy controlling things with his mind so he could become pope. But now that he has a direct line to God, you know, you gotta think now that he's secured that with whatever he was doing last year. You know, maybe he had to you know, probably like allow a bad White Sox season so he should could get repaid.
Uh.
You know, I don't know about the exact dealings that got him to be the pope.
Nine game win streaks.
They are two and two since he was named. Okay, so you don't want it to be too obvious, right, Yeah, you don't want to tip him off that Christ. That's why he wasn't back there doing the Angels wings in the outfield. He's you know, that's got you think. That's the humility thing. His biggest conflict is Pope.
He's like, do I advocate for gay people or do I use my powers to get another World Series?
Way, I mean, if the Socks win it this year, that's uh, like that.
That would change off when I will Okay, no, I'm not that Uh anyways, can't win them all because then it would it would ruin the narrative arc.
You know.
So I think this year White Sox have a respectable they finish around five hundred.
Yeah, it's like a manager takes over and like what.
Next season, Leo the fourteenth that you can crank it up a little bit. Bro, I's not gonna get mad at you.
We all want to see. We all want to believe.
I was pope. I would my fandom would poison my papacy. I just know that I would just go to all the games they like. This guy doesn't even fucking go. He's not even the Vatican. He's always had like Laker games or Arsenal matches.
It's like when the camera when the like JumboTron shows them, he's like doing the holding finger up and chugging a beer thing.
Olean, not one thing spilled, keeping my garments piss it open, so you know, yeah, like this over my head, not a drop. Oh my god, he could.
I can do my own miracle about making alcohol turn into something. I'm gonna turn this beer into piss.
Brother, I'm too sexy for this beer.
We're wearing a full pope hat at the game. Oh shit. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday, May twelfth. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get you or vaccines while you still can, get your flu shots while you still can. Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye.
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